Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
NEW DEPOTS.
Where Passengers Will
Leave and Depart.
TWO HANDSOME STRUCTURES
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe and the Southern Pacific
Buildings.

The approved plans and specifica-
tions for the new passenger depot ol
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company, to be located OH
Santa Fe street near the site Of the
present building. have been forwarded
from headquarters and the work will
be pushed to rapid completion. The
plans, as approved by Chief Engineer
Perris, present picture of most ele-
CANT and perfect structure, that will
cost, when ready for occupation, in
the neighborhood Of $4,000. The de-
pot wilr consist of what may be justly
termed two divisions, one for the pas
sengers, ticket offices and waiting
rooms, and the other for the emigrant
waiting rooms and baggage depart
tnent.
The front elevation will face the
railroad track, with the rear of the
building facing the city.
The building proper is only one
story high, but the roof, tower and
ornaments give it the appearance OF a
much higher structure. The depot
will be almost perfectly fireproof, as
the material to be used is stone, red
and black pressed brick, with iron
rafters and ornaments.
The length of the depot, exclusive
OF the platform, is so feet, the width
q feet. Passengers, male and female,
have their separate waiting rooms,
and the only mode of entrance for the
public to the ticket office is through
these rooms. For the convenience
of both sexes, the ticket office
window is located in an arched hall,
feet six inches wide by II feet long,
which connects the two waiting rooms
and thus affords the passengers a
chance to communicate with one
another.
The waiting rooms are % by go feet
each the ticket office which is to be
fitted withsall the latest improvements
to facilitate the rapid handling OF
tickets, is IL feet square.
In each waiting room are water
closets OF the most approved pattern,
and toilet rooms for both sexes. To
each waiting room there are two en-
frances, one from the platform, by
which the train stops, and the other
from the City side of the building.
The ticket office has an entrance from
the platform Oh the track side Of the
depot and also one from the hallway
connecting the two waiting rooms.
In each room a large fireplace. will be
erected. The platform runs entirely
around the house, being twenty feet
wide ON the ends and in the rear, and
forty feet wide at the front.
A large shed, supported upon hand
some iron columns twelve and half
feet apart and twenty feet high, en-
circles the building. This shed is nine
feet wide upon the rear and ends OF
the depot and fifteen on the front.
There are sixteen windows on the out
side downstairs that are nine feet high
and three feet wide. The doors are
all double ones ten feet high and five
wide. Two wings, one in the front
and the other in the rear, stand out
twelve feet from the main building
and are nineteen feet eight inches in
width and contain the waiting rooms,
offices, etc. The front elevation shows
a building ninety-six feet high
from the ground to the top Of the
tower, which stands in the center of
the building.
The tower is twenty-five feet wide
at its base, and will be handsomely
ornamented with clocks upon each
side.
The top of the roof is thirty feet
from the ground, and contains twenty
two large stained glass windows, while
ten feet higher is placed the name OF
the depot, "Los Angeles" in large
artifcial-stone letters.
In the tower are large double win
dows, the glass which is stained. The
ornaments and cornices of the build
ing are all of galvanized iron of the
best pattern and material. In the
hallway is located a flight of stairs
which run in to the tower.
Three large chimneys add great
ly to the general appearance, be-
ing built of red and black pressed
bricks, alternated and finished at the
top with handsome galvanized orna-
ments.
In that part OF the building under.
meath the tower the walls are lt
inches thick and the others are II.
The whole length of the building,
the platform and baggage room in
cluded, is 120 feet, and the width is
80 feet. The ends are finished in per,
fectly plain panels, without windows
or doors. The baggage and emigrant
waiting rooms are situated in another
structure so feet from the main build
ing, though the two are connected by
a shed, the roof of which is tin, sup
ported by iron columns 121 feet apart
The emigrant waiting room is 24x24
feet with two double doors 5x9 feet
two windows and fireplace. The
baggage room is 50x22 feet and has
four windows 21sx4 feet, two doors
one SKI and one 8x9. The door in
end of the baggage. room is twenty
eight inches lower, to permit the easy
handling of baggage by wagons. The
water closets for emigrants and the
public generally are built upon thu
outside of the baggage room, on thu
platform, and are 10 feet IL inches by
10 feet in size. The shed around thi
building is 8 feet wide and 20 fee
from the floor. The height of thu
baggage room including the ornament
on the roof is 81 feet; the length, in
Guiding the platform, is n feet, while
the platform to the decked portion
k1{n n1 h foot